A seventh grade girl hung herself in the front school yard of one of our local middle schools (not Jrs) yesterday. This is the second suicide this year at that school...this school is in an uppper middle class area.
On the way in I heard Josh McDowell speaking on Focus on the Family. He was talking about "tolerance" and said that "tolerance and justice cannot co-exist because justice requires a clear understanding of right and wrong..."
So I wonder sometimes if maybe the cave troll wasn't right and I'm not really doing all I can to fight evil...but it's a little overwhelming. The world my boys will live in as adults will be radically different than my world.
I guess all I can do is train them the best I can and pray...lots.
Sigh...
That IS all you can do, and fortunately that is also the BEST thing you can do.
I heard McDowell on Focus a few months ago and he was saying that 20 years ago the most quoted verse by Christians was "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life."
Today the most quoted verse by "Christians" is "Judge not, lest ye be judged." Christians, especially the youth, are not being trained on how to discern right from wrong today. I think it is that inability to say, "Hey! That is wrong" that is killing us as a people and as a society.
Whoops! Where'd that soapbox come from?